The current developments in Russia call the Western governments for urgent action.

All new developments bring more proofs: the fraud during the latest Duma election was indeed massive. 15, 20 or even larger percentage of the votes were stolen for the advantage of the Kremlin «United Russia” party through a variety of tricks.

The permanent pressure against the opposition as well as censorship in the media had excluded a fair election campaign from the very beginning anyway. The international observers – European council, OSCE and others – were thus right with their critical evaluation of these elections and their results.

It had indeed been falsified and manipulated at a large scale during previous election under Putin and, indeed, under Yeltsin, as well. Only, the considerable parts of society have stepped up with a resolute protest this time.